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Infestation

Infestation Definition Infestation, from the Latin infestatio = infection, refers in medicine to the infestation of a host with endo- or ectoparasites that cannot reproduce individually in this host (infected host = false host). A classic example of an infestation is larva migrans cutanea syndrome.

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